Quotes About Compromise

It's impossible for a couple to bring up two children without having lots and lots of arguments.

In my opinion, some of the hip-hop records that come out, people are willing to compromise. I'm not.

If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.

Saudi Arabia is the country that in the end will determine the ability of the Arabs to reach a compromise with Israel.

Sometimes, a player and a coach can have a different opinion. In the end, the best interest of the end, the best interest of the club has to be kept in mind.

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

When you're adapting a novel, there are always scenes taken out of the book, and no matter which scenes they are, it's always someone's favorite. As a screenwriter, you realize, 'Well, it doesn't work if you include everyone's favorite scenes.'

We are not willing to compromise our values in order to increase our market share.

Ihn dazu anzustacheln. mich zu lieben, erschien mir fast als ein Verbrechen. Wie sollte ich von ihm eine Liebe verlangen, die ihn krank machte vor lauter schlechtem Gewissen, während sie mir einen zusätzlichen Grund zu leben lieferte?

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

When I am your age, when the years have thinned my blood, when rage has cooled into judgment, then I will go in for treaties, compromises. Now, I must fight.

Procrustes bed is a phrase meaning any difficult situation which cannot be changed but to which man must adapt himself.

The thinking man often rebuked his girlfriend because of her extravagance. Once he discovered four pairs of shoes in her room. "I also have four different kinds of feet," she excused herself. The thinking man laughed and asked: "So what do you do, when one pair is worn out?" At that, she realized he was not yet quite in the picture and said, "I made a mistake, I have five different kinds of feet." With that the thinking man was finally in the picture.

Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

there is only, in the end, give and take and yielding, the bending of your idea of your ideal toward the one who loves you.

I have to be in a relationship where I can say what I feel even if it's wrong - so we can work through it.

Rhine laughed. "She bribed you?" "Sure did, and I took it like a politician at the state capital.

Well, the way I heard it, you pleaded with Phil to help you with your algebra," she said. "And since he needed the extra credit, he caved in and agreed.

Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force.

I think we should be focusing on how to limit the number of abortions. There ought to be able to have a common ground and consensus as to do that.

Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire, destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war.

I wouldn't go against Reggie and actively encourage Zoe to move in, but I think she and I would do okay together. If nothing else she could help me in my never-ending campaign. Some people want to save the rivers or save the whales, even save the entire planet - I just want to keep the toilet seat down.